skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember when I lived in Barcelona and filled up my motorbike at a gas station. I went inside to pay and the lady was shocked that I left my helmet on the bike's seat for the 30 seconds I'd be away from it, and urged me to go get it lest it be snatched. Real eye-opener as well. Back in Switzerland I'd never give that another thought.
Free software is doing well, yes. Businesses built-around free software, not so much. The list of successful companies based on fully FOSS software can practically be counted on one hand. Most of the time, the product may be very successful, but the company is really struggling.

A lot of OSS development is now done by companies who don't care that much about the software, because their revenue is totally independent. Netflix, Uber, Microsoft, etc.

Or it's open-core like Redis and Gitlab, with paid proprietary bits. Or "open source" with anti-service-provider licenses like MongoDB, Elastic, Redis.
You can change the statistics target, see https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-query...

You can also create more advanced statistics over multiple columns: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/planner-stats.html

But if your statistics are bad, it will certainly mess up some of your query plans.
I'd rather see Google make donations to the education system. We've seen that there are limits to money in politics. Once you get past a certain point, what we really need is a strong educational system so people can make rational decisions.
If moderation is key then grade them based on how much you can eat without side effects. Bad food would get a low score because it is easy to overeat.
Ok, guilty as charged, though I'd say my comment is valid all the same!
Me too, and then I got astigmatism
There was fury about Belgian authorities taking away sandwiches etc from UK lorry drivers

That happened once and people were right to be furious because the Dutch customs guy was a dick. No rule requires him to confiscate the lunch of lorry drivers and then say "Welcome to Brexit". It's that kind of nasty backstabbing pettiness that makes EU ideology so deeply unattractive that the UK voted to leave.

Nonetheless it's hilarious that so far despite the EU's best efforts to create as many problems as possible via "work to rule" type approaches, the media focuses on that. The EU-loving media class spent years telling people that if the UK dared to leave this horrible organisation there'd be immediate shortages of medicine. Now they have to hype up stories about dickish border guards whilst desperately trying to hide the fact that literally weeks after Brexit happened there are medicine shortages in the EU. People who argued against Brexit have been wrong about so many things so far I shouldn't be surprised but that one still takes the biscuit.
The OP, Zack Weinberg helpfully published his analysis on his own web page¹ and the formatting (different typeface for headings, flowing paragraph text, hypertext links, bullet points) made the analysis much more readable.

I think email is fine as the communication medium for software projects – particularly for projects that have been around for as long as Autotools†. For me, the biggest downside is that not all mailing lists use GNU mailman or other listserv software that provide archiving of list posts. Having a searchable archive of discussions is invaluable.

† though I was surprised to see a number of contributors top-posting; that practice was universally discouraged on Internet mailing lists until the number of new members using MS Outlook overwhelmed members who followed the established “netiquette”

1. https://www.owlfolio.org/development/autoconf-swot/
It could be that they made and lost millions and their net wasn't too impressive until the yesterday. A lot of people only mention their wins.

Edit: Saw he worked at FAANG and is 30, so there's a pretty good chance he also started with investing million(s).
I would also mention StreetComplete and level0 - both on extreme ranges of being user friendly vs full data access.

(StreetComplete is Android app usable by people with 0 experience and knowledge but with limited editing, level0 is Matrix-style access to raw data).
sensor.community promotes building an open environmental data network, and has a good guide to building an ESP8266/SDS011 based node.

https://sensor.community/en/sensors/airrohr/
Firefox without tabs in mobile is a no-go, especially in a tablet. They did not put too much thought into this interface.
They're often violating the letter too.

I'm in favor of a lot more fines, and substantial fines. Few companies need to be made example of. The current situation does further damage to how EU citizens perceive GDPR and EU itself - companies do their best to make the consent control experience as bad and tiresome as possible, and then they tell people to blame GDPR for how web browsing just got more annoying.
The point is that comes across as hypocritical and makes the rationales come across as lies. "Consent for data sharing is important - except when we do it!" isn't a very good look even if there are valid reasons for tax return transparency it goes against their own stated principles.
At least their are not hiding their political affinity any more.
Well, if that SDK contains tracking stuff, the question then becomes whether the SDK has an opt-out option. If yes, it's on the consumer of the SDK. If not, then whether the TOS is enforceable in Europe.
Nice try, but I expect a security researcher to understand the very basics of security and avoid putting sensitive data on untrusted OSes.

People have been using testbeds with dedicated hardware since day 1 of computing.
A solar flare won't destroy anything that isn't plugged into a power outlet. We will also be aware of it days before it hits, time enough to unplug anything and not even need to touch backups.

The disastrous consequences are all in the area of losing the power grid itself.
> It should be required by law that there be a simple to access “opt out to everything” option that should be as easy to access as an “opt in to everything” option.

It arguably is already required with the language of article 7.2 and recital 32, especially this part

> If the data subject’s consent is to be given following a request by electronic means, the request must be clear, concise and not unnecessarily disruptive to the use of the service for which it is provided.

But we will see how it gets interpreted as more cases works their way through the system.
That one is a lot stickier, because no one tried to systematically wipe out the Saudi people.

Hundreds of thousands of Saudis didn't immigrate here to escape certain death.

There's also the fact that America is still a very religious country - and takes it seriously - so many people support Israel because they really do believe they're protecting God's chosen people. No one should "wish" for war, but I've often wondered what would happen if Saudi Arabia decided to wage war against Israel. I'm very curious with whom America would ultimately side.
> the entire Linux ecosystem is gradually becoming RedHat ecosystem.

No. Suse still exists, if you don't like Debian based distribution. But my money is on the Debians - and more specifically, on Ubuntu.

For server stuff, Ubuntu is great - commercial support with various cloud providers, lots of prepackaged software (including the commercial software I use).

For hiring, a lot of students run either Debian or Ubuntu on their own computers - meaning I don't have to teach them the intricacies of rpm like apt search is rpm -Q, apt install is rpm -i ...

Icing on the cake is ZFS as the rootfs filesystem out of the box since the last few Ubuntus.

RedHat was innovative, like when they replaced ext4 by XFS as the default filesystem, but that was like 15 years ago.

Still, big money make miracles happen. If IBM can arrange some relicensing of ZFS with Oracle, they could use it on RedHat, but it'd take me a lot of cajoling to even consider switching back - much more than a filesystem that's the minimal prerequisite to just put RedHat on the list of options. Bitten once, twice shy you know?

Anyway, given how it's favored for WSL, Microsoft will eventually fork or buy Ubuntu from Canonical or just buy Canonical outright, which will make it even more of a rival to RedHat in the long term.
Show HN: General reactive JavaScript programming using the idea of React Hooks
For personal projects, I start with SQLite by default. Never came close to its scalability limit too ;)
Oh no, the largest modern day monopoly will no longer pay for political goodwill.
Cyber security labelling scheme in Singapore expanded to all smart home devices
Saudi Arabia grants citizenship to robot Sophia (2017)
While censorship people for their writings (based on whatever the US elites that happen to be mainstream in 2020 consider acceptable)?

To the degree that even the sitting President, right or wrong, can be shut down?

Yeah, pass...
It's not just you. The article starts out with a very inflammatory title. If the author had any regard for effective communication, they would begin by explaining what exactly is a "monitoring startup", but instead they assume that there can really be only one kind of "monitoring". About 3/4 through the article, it becomes clear they probably mean monitoring servers, and not, say, monitoring a physical location with cameras, or monitoring an assembly line or baby monitors.

Then, the meat of the article is basically saying "everyone else failed, so you will too. Also, Google can do it better than you." It just sounds snarky and arrogant. IMO much of the point of startups is to be allowed to take risks. If everyone has a conservative attitude that risky ideas shouldn't even be tried, progress never happens. What do you think this guy would have said when Elon Musk announced his plans to launch SpaceX? Good thing some people don't listen to cynical asshats.

Also, two-sentence paragraphs. They convey a fundamental misunderstanding of how paragraphs are used.
While Brassica may be the most eaten by mass, there's a variety of other leafs mentioned in the article.

The phylogenetic tree show it.

https://botanistinthekitchen.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/201...
I doubt there was much love to be lost between Google and conservative congressmen, many of whom are being pushed and are pushing for section 230 reforms. This is just an opportunity for Google to leverage for PR.
Do you happen to eat toast in the morning?

>“The scariest thing in this house is probably the toaster,” Erin Katz, another student volunteer, said. “I just had no idea that toasters emitted so many particles.”[1]

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-hidden-air...
At least in some cases I've seen, the progress seems to be tied to a staggering number of network requests happening in the background. I've heard this explained as being necessary to communicate your opt-out to all the relevant parties, but honestly, that smells like bullshit. More likely it's designed like this on purpose, to have plausible deniability for the dark pattern.
> I am pro-climate change

Wait, what? What do you mean?
And the "senior White House official" "disinformation".
Whats the evidence that they can't operate as usual without lockdown?
One thing to note here, is that key revocation is a normal and expected part of a keys life cycle.

Maybe you roll your keys every two or five years?
Some would argue that you should.

When you retire an old key, it's not uncommon to revoke the old key. You could let it expire, but you could also publish a revocation cert for it, provide a reason, and maybe mention the new key.

Another issue is that while signing commits can be good, it's not the primary basis for access control to the repository. If your key is compromised, what about the SSH key used to push to it?

Things get fairly complex, when you run into situations like Alice signing her commits, later revoking her key because it got compromised, but then her collegue - Bob - force-pushes a branch, resets the repo entirely, or similar. Then Bob is pushing Alices commits, that were signed by a no longer valid key.

I think a reasonably safe approach would be to say that:

1. Signed commits are viewed as trusted at the time they were first seen, providing the key is not revoked at that point.

2. Compromised keys may need to lead to an audit/damage control, at which point the signature is effectively degraded to a tool towards that end. If the key is revoked due to compromise, and the time of the compromise is unknown, you effectively can't depend on those signatures at all.

So are signed commits worth anything at all then?

I think so. Git is inherently a distributed thing, and I think signed commits can add verification that goes beyond the SSH-access to github or similar.

People also potentially treat their ssh keys and code signing keys differently. Maybe they just reuse one set of ssh keys for everything, keeping it loaded in an ssh agent at all times, key-forwarding it all over the place, but unlock their gpg keys only when signing.

In short: I think signed commits are useful despite possibly running into issues when keys are revoked, but I think it's important to consider what a valid signature provides at different times and in different circumstances.

Sorry for the wall of text, just random things to consider.
You don’t need the entire dataset to be addressable. Just a working set. How do you think we played 20GB video games on our Pentium 4s?
This study said debunking afterwards is more effective right in the abstract. The question is whether or not people saw the debunk.
States all get the majority of their tax revenue from some combination of sales tax, income tax, and property tax. If income tax goes to zero then I guess the other two must go up. I would guess he advocates repealing Prop 13 as part of his plan.
I can't remember the name, I've just sat in a bunch of business meetings where they kept saying the problem with the UK was we couldn't get access to the market because one company, whose name got mentioned a few times but not enough to remember, had 90% and wouldn't work with us or anyone because they make more money without partnerships. It could be the 90% are connected to a hub and the hub won't work with us. We have direct connections with CPOs (Charing Point Operators) and then we have connections with hubs, most of our CPOs come via a hub like Hubject.
Pretty much my experience too. Every few months my distro collects up a bag of patches, then I receive a new build. Once every couple of years I get to go through a version${new}.txt help file, often receiving a few new goodies.

My only real interaction was a few years ago when I opened a doc typo PR, and received a quick response from Bram. Then it faded away again.
It looks like the value of this business unit has dropped though, UPS acquired their LTL operation for $1.2 billion in 2005. Maybe they just about broke even with the operating profit?
> This is sad because most of what you've said can be applied to lotteries as well, which historically has been criticized as being a "tax" on the poor. The end result is the same: people putting themselves in a worse place financially (on average), just so they can cope with their bleak existence.

Damn. I've never considered the psychological effects of the lottery system, but in a way I think you hit the nail on the head.

Anyways, in the GME scenario it appears that most retail investors are actually in a better place financially because of it.
This is one of the reasons I love Factorio. The release notes are so interesting, they're actually part of the game's experience.
Not in the current pandemic, I hope.
Is "politicians that uphold the constitution" a political affinity?
Is that limited to the 2020 election, or will it include the many Democrats who objected to the 2000 and 2004 election results?
... then also do push exercises?
Interesting they're framing it as Revue joining twitter rather than Twitter acquiring Revue.
It does not seem at all obvious which is exactly why we have fucking research.
> The defense from Bitcoiners is that this is still “good” overall: This is energy that would otherwise be wasted, and the share of renewables will grow.

This could be true, depending on the balance of mining rewards, the price of Bitcoin, and difficulty. There is wasted energy out there being used to mine Bitcoin, and if it becomes the only profitable way to mine it, then that's all that will be used to mine it.

Right now, it doesn't seem to be the case.
Translation: I offer my opinion on something I literally and admittedly avoided reading.
It's really simple economics: the low interest rates means they're dumping new money into corporations. If you're not getting loans and buying stocks you're missing out and just coping with your savings being devalued.
> From my perspective, Brexit has always seemed like an absolutely massive economic, political, and cultural self-own.

I agree. But it's less humiliating than the MAGA and QAnon crowds' self-own.
I'd never heard of this man before. Now I'm sad that I hadn't learned of him earlier.

Still, it sounds like he had an amazing and full life.
I see Ubuntu future in the hands of Microsoft!
That's fair. Tbh, at the school that I went to (top 5 liberal arts school), studying any sort of humanity more or less set you up to pursue either a professional humanities degree (e.g. JD/MBA) or an academic degree (e.g. PhD).

To your point, though, studying just for interest is probably not prudent, and it's also probably not prudent to study humanities if you're not prepared to attain a subsequent degree/go on the academic track.
That is behind a paywall. Equivalent sites I looked at did not cite studies, frequently depending on an argument from theory. For example, one quoting an optometrist: "'Your actual prescription is based on the anatomy of the eye: the front curve of the cornea, the refractive power of the intraocular lens, and the length of the eyeball.' And peering through spectacles won’t change that anatomy".

But this study shows that at least the kind of glasses one wears can change the progression of myopia, so arguments from theory are unconvincing to me: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22161388/

I have no idea what the actual truth is here. It seems like a variety of opinions abound, although everybody seems to agree the phenomenon of feeling like things are worse when you've recently worn glasses is real. So in this case I'll continue go with what works for me: generally not wearing glasses except when driving, which is the only place it makes a practical difference for me.
Bloomberg's cryptocurrency reporting has always seemed self-serving to me - and not even that well concealed.

While I AM a believer in it, I don't find Bloomberg's articles on it any more trustworthy than hobbiest "moon" posts.

They don't seem to report on anything that hasn't been mentioned many times before. It's all a bit fluffy for my liking.

My guess is Michael Bloomberg is bullish on Ethereum, hence the knocking of PoW in this article.
It doesn't have to be either/or. Google has funded "Summer of Code" and other education-related initiatives.
The standards are for the opposition only.
No, no, they will keep paying, of course, but only to those in the mainstream.
Mineral rights leases, I do not believe, are not extended to solar and wind in the USA. In the USA you don't necessarily own the land you are extracting resources from.
IBM of 2020 isn't the IBM of 2000. I'll look at their actions, not their words.
No, it's limited to Republicans.
I'm hoping for <iframe loading="lazy"> in the next few releases!
Could not have happened to a better group . . . .
Seems like the specific problem there is Facebook enticing you to break the law. You could try filing a complain with some appropriate data protection agency.
I understand your hope but people don't have time/desire to want to be educated on a subject. Even those of us on HN, how many subjects are we really well informed on? or do we just believe the headlines from our favorite site? The spending bill that was recently presented to Congress was 800 pages and our representatives had four hours to read it before the vote. The world is too complicated and moving too fast.
Oh no: words! This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
If they really wanted to send a message they would stop corporate donations as a whole.

Of course this is all virtue signaling and not actually about making a positive impact on society.
The actual way this should be implemented, if they wanted to be morally irreproachable, would be this: a consent popup always available, tucked down somewhere in the corner of the site. It defaults to opt-out from everything, you can click on it to expand it if you want to opt into something.

An acceptable option is to pop up a consent form as needed, and set a cookie recording whether user made a consent decision. That can be classified as essential cookie to fulfill a legal obligation.
Theoretically your argument would make sense, but practically your data distribution should be uniform enough for the statistics collector to work for terabytes and terabytes.

I've seen query plans get messed up with partial indexes, but if you have a regular index, you needn't worry.
Wait, what have I missed?

I thought copyleft licensing has been steadily losing share to permissive licensing for a long time, with no end in sight. Can you point to information indicating otherwise?

The Linux kernel itself keeps going from success to success, but that seems to be the last major copyleft bastion, and they also somewhat famously rejected GPLv3.
Presumably the fact that Republicans no longer control either the Senate or the House, conservative funding gets them much less these days.
I feel like James had the deadline wrong in his calendar and this article is what "Right, sorry, I'll get it over to you by the end of the day" looks like when there is not in fact already a pretty much complete piece that just needs some polish but instead an empty Word document and half an idea in your head.

Like so many people, James is pretty confident that anything he doesn't understand (including apparently elliptic curve cryptography) is probably unimportant, and that the solution to his pressing problems is just to make something he knows isn't possible easy (remembering a separate strong random password for every site) so the people who are working on stuff James doesn't understand ought to work on that instead.

This piece was written, I think, slightly before BCP 188 ("Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack") but to me it feels as though that's the answer to it. Yes, the NSA (or Mossad, but realistically the NSA) could definitely win if that's what it came down to, you or them. But that's very rarely the situation. Their budget, though large, is finite, and your value, even if large, is also finite. If snooping every word said on the telephone by an American costs 5¢ per citizen, why wouldn't the NSA do it? Worth a shot. But if it costs $5000 per citizen that's gonna blow their budget, and for what? So that's what BCP 188 is about, the question isn't whether you're dealing with "Mossad or not-Mossad" it's whether you are the Protagonist or just another extra. We can't make it impossible for a sophisticated and resourceful adversary to succeed, but we can make it very expensive so that they are obliged to choose their shots.
> Based on this experience, I strongly support voting in person, with an ID.

Shhh, a view like this will get you banned from Twitter... ;)
Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies